Page 4516 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . . Video
would be prudent to wait until next year, perhaps the first sitting of next year, to allow time for deliberation and consideration of what are complex issues and to fully address all the issues that have been raised by stakeholders.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee
Scrutiny report 37
MS CODY (Murrumbidgee) (10.14): I present the following report:
Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee (Legislative Scrutiny Role)—Scrutiny Report 37, dated 19 November 2019, together with a copy of the extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings.
I seek leave to make a brief statement.
Leave granted.
MS CODY: Scrutiny report 37 contains the committee’s comments on nine bills, proposed amendments to five bills, 20 pieces of subordinate legislation, five government responses, one regulatory impact statement and two national regulations. I commend the report to the Assembly.
Education, Employment and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee
Report 7
MRS KIKKERT (Ginninderra) (10.15): I present the following report:
Education, Employment and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee—Report 7—Cessation of the Music for Colleges course, dated 14 November 2019, including a dissenting report (Mr Pettersson), together with a copy of the extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings.
I move:
That the report be noted.
The Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs self-referred this inquiry on 9 April 2019, following the referral of petition 18-18 from the Assembly. This report considers the decision to cease funding the music for colleges course and the implications of that decision. The committee also considered alternative options for advanced music study in the ACT. The committee received 26 submissions and held three hearings over the course of this inquiry. The report makes six recommendations.
The committee agreed that there is significant value in the continuation of an advanced music course for students who are gifted and talented in the arts. Such a
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . . Video